Welcome to 2025-26 Oregon Game Bird Hunting
What’s New for 2025-26
- Some fees will change in 2026. For details, visit the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife website.
- Increased the pintail bag limit.
- Adjusted the season dates and bag limit in the Northwest Goose Permit Zone.
- Combined the Western and Eastern Oregon Fall Turkey tags.
- Expanded the boundary of the fall turkey hunt.
- Expanded the boundary and dates of the Beardless Turkey Permit hunt.
Director's Message
Exciting news for duck hunters—the daily bag limit for pintail, an abundant wintering species in the Pacific Flyway, will increase to three this season!
ODFW and our partners across the flyways worked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to revise the national harvest strategy that led to the increase in the pintail bag limit this season, and future seasons if supported by the data. The many years of data collected by USFWS Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey helped inform the decision. This survey is one of largest and longest-running wildlife surveys in the world, ongoing since 1955!
The good news also continues for upland bird populations. Many of Oregon’s populations have flourished in recent years, particularly chukar and quail in southern and eastern Oregon, thanks to the above average precipitation seen in recent years. Sage-grouse have also benefited from the respite in drought conditions. This spring, we recorded some of the highest lek counts we've seen in Oregon since 2005. It’s thanks to sage-grouse hunters that we can estimate annual productivity (i.e., chicks per hen and proportion juveniles in the harvest), by using hunter-returned wings.
From returning wings and tails that help us monitor upland bird populations, to the purchase of hunting licenses, products and equipment that fund wildlife management, hunters continue to be the backbone of wildlife conservation. I want to take a moment to say thank you to hunters for all you do to support conservation. Be sure to get outdoors with your friends, family and your hunting dog this season and make the most of Oregon’s many bird hunting opportunities!
Debbie Colbert, Director
